In 1800s America, one thing terrifying is feeding on the quiet city of Exeter. As members of George Brown’s household succumb one after the other, the city considers drastic measures to guard the dwelling from the useless.
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Additional Studying
Books
Meals for the Useless: On the Path of New England’s Vampires (2013) by Michael Bell.
Every thing is Tuberculosis: The Historical past and Persistence of Our Deadliest An infection (2025) by John Inexperienced.
Articles
“New England ‘Vampire’ Was Doubtless a Farmer Named John” by Jason Daley, Smithsonian Journal (fifth August 2019). Obtainable right here.
“Outdated cemetery revealing its secrets and techniques” by Jenn Heldt, The Bulletin (twenty fourth March 1990). Obtainable right here.
“Cemetery Holds Tales of Vampires” by Sam Libby, New York Instances (sixteenth February 1922). Obtainable right here.
“The Nice New England Vampire Panic” by Abigail Tucker, Smithsonian (October 2012). Obtainable right here.
“The Man with a Fish on His Again” by Diane Wendy, Distillations Journal (third April 2010). Obtainable right here.
“Exeter Hill”, Pautuxet Valley Gleaner (fifth February 1887).
“Greene Valley”, Pautuxet Valley Gleaner (fifth April 1889).
“Exeter Hill and the Neighborhood”, Pautuxet Valley Gleaner (twenty ninth Might 1891).
“Exeter Hill and Neighborhood”, Pautuxet Valley Gleaner (twenty seventh November 1891).
“Exeter Hill and Vicnity”, Pawtuxet Valley Gleaner (twenty second January 1892).
“Exeter Hill and Neighborhood”, Pautuxet Valley Gleaner (twenty sixth February 1892).
“Exeter Hill and the Neighborhood”, Pautuxet Valley Gleaner (twenty fifth October 1892).
“Exeter Hill”, Pautuxet Valley Gleaner (twenty second June 1900).
“Exhumed the Our bodies: Testing a Horrible Superstition within the City of Exeter, The Windfall Journal (nineteenth March 1892).
“The Vampire Concept: That Seek for the Spectral Ghoul within the Exeter Graves”, The Windfall Journal (twenty first March 1892).
“Exeter”, Rhode Island Pendulum (thirty first July 1891).
“Exeter”, Rhode Island Pendulum (thirteenth Might 1892).
“Edwin A. Brown”, The Normal (twentieth Might 1892).
Tutorial Articles and Historic Surveys
“Historic and Architectural Sources of South Kingstown, Rhode Island: A Preliminary Report”, Rhode Island Historic Preservation Fee (1984). Obtainable right here.
“DNA Testing Reveals the Putative Identification of JB55, a nineteenth Century Vampire Buried in Griswold, Connecticut” by Jennifer Daniels-Higginbotham et al., Genes (Basel), twenty second August 2019, 10(9), p. 636. Obtainable right here.
“Bioarcheological and Biocultural proof for the New England vampire people perception” by Paul Sledzik and Nicholas Bellantoni, The American Journal of Bodily Anthropology, June 1994, 94(2), pp. 269-74. Obtainable right here.
“Late-life cardiac interventions and the remedy crucial” by Janet Okay Shim, Ann J Russ and Sharon R Kaufman, PLOS Drugs, 4 March 2008, 5(3). Obtainable right here.
“Loss of life and the remedy crucial: Determination-making in late-stage most cancers” by Alexandra Tate, Social Science & Drugs, August 2022, 306. Obtainable right here.
Blogs and Web sites
“Tuberculosis: A Modern Illness?” by Imogen Clarke, Science Museum (twenty fourth March 2019). Obtainable right here.
“Tuberculosis Half Two: Therapies and Cures”, Science Museum (sixth February 2024). Obtainable right here.
“Story of Us – T is for Tuberculosis”, Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum. Obtainable right here.
“Some Candy Day, By and By”, Hymnary.org. Obtainable right here.
“Have Mercy…” by Jennifer L. Galpern, Rhode Island Historic Society (thirty first October 2016). Obtainable right here.
“Exeter Historical past”, City of Exeter Rhode Island. Obtainable right here.
“Tuberculosis”, Saint John’s Most cancers Institute. Obtainable right here.
